THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY English supplement of SVOBODA. Ukrainian daily* founded 1893. Dedicated to the needs and interests of young Americans of Ukrainian descent

No. 15 JERSEY CITY, N. J., FRIDAY, APRIL 11. 1941. VOL. IX

PLAY BALL! PROF. MANNING II (II RES ON IK.\NKO AT (і l<]ist must be composed of at least fif­ Alexander Koshetz at New York's famed Carnegie Hall and European Langua ' - delivered an teen members of the U.N.A., play inspiring lecture i»n the lit<· and under the U.N.A. name, and belong Town Hall, or the concert of symphonic and choral music at Carnegie Hall led by Professor Paul Pecheniha-Ouglitsky. .works of Ivan Frank<> last Friday to the U.N.A. Baseball or Softball evening in the uni\t tvitvs Scher­ League. To obtain financial assist­ It was then that the magic beauty of our musical herit­ merhorn Hall. ance, teams are required to submit age became fully revealed. And it was then, too, that it Ti»e lecture w;ts the s<·\ «·nth in the signatures of their players on became clear that this beauty of our songs must be pre­ the series currently be given at the registration blanks not later served, in a recorded form, so that it could thrill and inspire Columbia University under the than May 31, 1941. For registra­ not only some of us but all of us; not only once or twice auspices of the Department <>t' tion blanks write to: East European Languages in con­ but many times; and not only in the concert halls but in junction with tli· Ukrainian Na­ GREGORY HERMAN the privacy of our homes as well. tional Association. U.N.A. Athletic Director This feeling attained its climax at the concert given More details d»out Professor 261 Madison Street by the specially picked and trained chorus under Koshetz Manning's lectun* will appear on Wilkes-Barre. Pa. these pages next week. at the American-Ukrainian Congress at Washington last The eighth ariT TITLE respects it was superior to any other Ukrainian choral con­ Tiltman. British author and jour­ cert presented before then. In any event, it created such a nalist. By defeating Rossford 50 to 37 strong demand for Ukrainian choral recordings, that soon in a recent game, the Hamtramck basketball team won for the third thereafter the American-Ukrainian Congress Committee SIKORSKf ARRIVAL PROMPTS consecutive year the Mid Western had to take action on it. M |SS\<¡I«; TO PRESIDENT title in the Ukrainian National As­ sociation Basketball League. Its A special committee of five professional musicians was Prompted І >у the arrival in third consecutive title victory appointed (Kaekiw—chairman, Koshetz, Sorochinsky, Ko- Washington.ot the Premier of the gives the Hamtramck team per­ rolishin, and Ordynsky), charged it with the task of (1) Polish government in exile, Gen­ manent possession of the U.N.A. eral Wladyslaw Sikorski. the Amer­ trophy. securing enough advance orders ($10 for a set of 10 records ican-Ukrainian Congress Commit­ Andy Gay of Hamtramck led both -^20 songs) to cover the costs involved, (2) organizing a tee sent last Monday, April 7. the teams with 15 points, while J. Bo- suitable chorus under the direction of Koshetz, and (3) pro­ following telegram to President bak of Rossford rated second with ceeding with the recording by this chorus of a cycle of songs, Roosevelt: 12. • "The American-Ukrainian Con­ drawn from the best in the repertoire of our music. gress Committ·ee, representing "Ukrainian ¾pern, to date the Ukrainian Re­ two t>he¾ send societies, made uu. Hamtramck U.N.A. team recently cording Comm¾fee has not"1tfWll Ul·l·i iv eiuingn Amu th* i¾t Americans of Ukrainian birth won the Hanitramek BB Champion­ аГіЛ ftasceru. prompted by the ship. It also won the Inter-City first stage of its task. The sum raised by it thus txr is still of Polls« —1· і і «^. Championship in which eight for from the necessary amount. In brief, the entire action korstf¾ visit to Washington, championship teams participated. is proceeding at a snail-like pace. takes the liberty to call to your attention that the Ukrainians The fault here lies primarily with our general public. had strongly opposed the incor­ Despite its previous vociferous demands for the recordings, poration of Western Ukraine in­ CONNECTICUT YOUTH' ORGA*N­ it has now become, on the whole, strangely unresponsive and to the Polish Republic at tho IZATION POUNDS SCHOLAR­ close of the World War I, and indifferent to all the appeals for help. Very few people, it that according to our knowledge SHIP FUND seems, care a whit now whether the contemplated recordings of conditions in Western Ukraine The establishment of a scholar­ of Ukrainian songs are ever made or not. Some persons, in they would oppose to the utmost ship fund to assist young Connec­ fact, particularly those who have an ax to grind, poke fun any attempt to reincorporate ticut residents of Ukrainian descent, them within a future independ­ was announced this week by the and deride the whole action. In the meantime—it should ent Poland just as they resist Ukrainian Youth Organization of not be overlooked—numerous recordings, some of them even now their status under So­ Connecticut. very good ones indeed, made by the Don Cossacks Chorus viet domination. The purpose of this fund is to ·\Vc further believe that the "assist any young person whose or by the Red Array Choir, and including varioue Ukrain­ Ukrainians who ¡·M· now under chief characteristic is the quality ian songs, are being sold throughout the country like hot Russian, German a»id Hungarian of determined purpose to make cakes. domination, would welcome a something of his life—a person chance to participate in the re­ who realises that he should use his Though our general public deserves to be condemned construction of that part of ability and whatever opportunities for its unresponsive attitude toward this undeniably worthy Europe which they inhabit, on the basis of self-determination are given him, not merely for his project, the strongest condemnation, however, should be own advancement, but for the good as well as close economic and of his fellow men." meted out to our numerous local choruses and their direct­ political cooperation among free and democratic nations. All persons graduating from sec­ ors. With very few exceptions, they have ignored the entire "We deem it our civic duty t» ondary schools and desiring to en­ matter. ter college, seminary, or technical communicate with you, Sir, at school are eligible for the scholar- One would think that the choristers and their directors a time when broad outlines for shop, the announcement states. a future European order are un­ would support this action at least from self-interest alone. der discussi·on, and when leaders In order to help as many stu­ After all, a set of recordings made by a specially picked of other than Ukrainian nation­ dents as possible, this scholarship alities in Europe are submit tinp aid will be limited to only the and trained chorus under the world renowned· Koshetz, would their views to you. We do so freshmen year. There will be two constitute a permanent and always available standard of because the Ukrainian people in scholarships of one hundred dol­ Ukrainian choral work toward which our church and folk the Old World are in no position lars each payable toward tution, to express themselves freely." according to the announcement. choruses could strive in their localities. Lacking such a The basis of the award is as standard now, their singing, on the whole, is quite out­ follows: The student must be a moded and deficient in many respects, and, what makes it Connecticut resident of Ukrainian worse, is the fact that they remain unaware of this. METROPOLITAN PROFESS ION- descent; the aid is to be awarded \LS REORGANIZE to a student for whom a freshman If such phonograph discs as the American-Ukrainian Re­ year at his chosen school would be cording Committee intends to make were available to our The Ukrainian Professional So­ difficult but not necessarily impos­ ciety of the New York Metropol­ sible because of financial reasons; local choruses, there is little doubt but that they would re­ itan Area held> a reorgaisation he must have a high scholastic ap­ veal to them their faults and mistakes and'thereby raise the meeting Thursday evening, March titude; possess an outstanding level of their singing and intepretation of Ukrainian songs. 27, at which plans were drawn character; have the capacity for for future activities and the fol­ leadership; and must be a can­ The Ukrainian songs, as we all know, have won great lowing new officers elected: Ste­ didate for a degree. fame throughout the world. Therefore the present action to phen Shumeyko, Pres.; Mary Ku«y, Applications for this scholarship Secretary; Joseph Leaawyer, Treas­ aid should be made not later than record some of the finest of them, deserves full support from urer. April 3eth, to Шве Vera Malan· all of us. The society will hold a dinner- chub, Secretary of the Scholar­ meeting Friday evening, April ship. Board\ 453 North Main St, Send in your advance orders ($10 for a set of 10 records—20 songs) or contributions to Stephen Korµan, Treasurer, Amerioan-Uk- 25th. which will be featured by a Wallingford, Conn. Write to her Town Hall Meeting program. for an application form. rainian Congress Committee, 524 Olive Street, Scranton, Pa. DR. COLEMAN LECTURES IN PHILADELPHIA A Review of Allen's History of Ukraine Dr. Arthur p. Coleman's first lecture in Philadelphia at the In­ By I>K. ARTHUR PR П>І>К\ HHIMW ternational "Institute on March 16 (Department of E*at European Languages. Columbia University) on "Slavs' Contribution to the Democratic Ideal," provided the occasion for the first general as­ TJERE ія a volume with every­ III Ukraine from 1614. Sahaydachny sembly of Slavs in Quaker ~City thing in it but tii· i·n »verb¡al was not only an outstanding mil­ history. kitchen stove." An . ·m yclopedia Since the Ukraine, according to itary chieftain, second in ability Ukrainians, Slovaks, Russians, і ither than what its subtitle—A the powerful and articulate school and craft only to his contemporary Poles, and Czechs, young and old, I« ¡story — suggests, it should be of hist t>r¡ans to which Mr. Allen and admirer, Stanislaw Zotkiewski, gathered to hear the professor of саЛеД_ not THE UKK.·\INE, but belongs, derives its very identity but he was a great worker in the Slavonic Languages from Colum­ domain of cultural uplift through­ bia University greet them in their THE UKRAINE, and since his­ out his Cossack domain. It was in native languages, compliment them tories are rarely issued from Eng­ these historians are those which his time that the Cossacks got the on their cultural contributions to lish presses in the Inchoate form mark successful efforts either to name of being the greatest protec­ America, and express a hope tha^ described by this title ugh the cement or shatter political unity tors of the Christian faith in the Slavonic heroes, such as Ukraine's^ practice is common enough among in a region which the inescapable world, and the greatest emanci­ Taras Shevchenko, would become continental scholars ti>e work law of geography has created into pators of Christian captives. better known in America. Dr. Cole­ strikes one as surprising if not as a unit. man said that one of his favorite something of a shock. Between the 9th and 12th cen­ "No one in the world showers Slavonic heroes is Taras Shevchen­ turies "the land of Rus" lived a such benefits on Christian cap­ ko, whose" English translation of Recalling the brilliant manner in common life, dictated by the rivers, tives as they do," wrote Job Bo- "My Dream" he read before the which Slavonic nation> histories and when this was destroyed by retsky, whom Sahaydachny made group. have often been treated by English the Mongol sacking of Kiev, in Metropolitan of Kiev. "What historians in the past Runci- 1240, the first significant milestone with other nations ends only During the "tea" that followed, a man's dramatic history ot old Bul­ in Ukraine's history was reached. with fine words and high-flown spirit of friendship prevailed among garia, for example—one ·>l»ens Al­ The second was passed in 1653. speeches, the Cossacks put into the Slavs who were introduced to len's work with whetted ippetite, when at Pereyaslav, south of Kiev action." (p. 93). each other and chatted on the pos­ only to be quickly let down as he on the left bank of the Dnieper, sibilities of forming and solidifying sees the author careful¡\ noting on the very last day of the year, Sahaydachny was unusual among an All-Slav Union in Philadelphia each one of the trees on the land­ the Ukrainian Rada answered Boh­ Cossack leaders in that he was to influence the establishment of scape of history and fi||ling, al the dan Khmelnytsky's call for a pol­ well-educated, being a graduate of a just and fair boundary set-up in same time, to take cognizance of icy with the cry, Prince Constantine Ostrogski's Europe after the present war. the forest! famous academy of Ostrog. "We. want to go to the Tsar who Ivan Mazeppa does not stand up Alexander Yaremko There is the possibility, o! course, belongs to the Eastern Orthodox well enough in the light of his that Mr. Allen might hav. worked Faith. "^God help us. God make whole career to be a real Ukrain­ through the trees until h·· found us strong and united for all ian national hero, says Mr. Allen, THE LOAD the forest before giving hi> manu­ time!" CP. 119). but Bohdan Khmelnytsky does, A peasant, driving to the fair, script to the printer if he had not The third date red-starred by though entirely in spite of him­ noticed a heavily burdened woman been called unexpectedly to "'for­ Mr. Allen, is 1667, the year which self, for he was as much of a trudging by. eign service." But the fat ·t is he saw the unity achieved as a con­ thoroughgoing "King's Man" as "Have a seat, mother," said the did not, and the work, as it stands, sequence of Bohdan's spectacular ever was Ivan Mazeppa. Khmel­ driver. "Let me take you to the is a thing patched together, evident­ revolution cancelled by the agree­ nytsky fled to the Sich and called fair as that's where I'm bound for." ly, by a number of European trans­ ment of Andrusiv, when Poland on the Cossacks to rise in order The gentle old woman took her lators and scholars after Mr. Allen ' and Russia partitioned the "fluvial to avenge a personal insult. A seat in the wagon. The driver had gone to war. In its tangled і network" of Ukraine though fear, Pole named Czaplihsk¡ got the noticed that although there was a verbiage, its massed battalions of shared in common, of Ukraine's better of him in a property deal lot of room inside the wagon she undigested notes, and elaborate at­ characteristic proletarianism. В¾ and in matters connected with a kept holding her bundle in her lap. certain Ukrainian beauty named tention to minutiae at the expense the same token Mr. Allen makes "Why don't you place the bundle Komarowska (curiously enough it of a clear, arresting whole. THE 1793. 1918, and finally September inside the wagon, mother?" he is the same name as that of the UKRAINE is a monument to sec- 17, 1939. milestone dates in Uk­ asked. raine's history, since each repre­ famous Gertrude, beloved by cond-rate, pendantic scholarship. "God bless you, kind sir," re­ sents either the restoration or de­ Szczesny Potocki and immortalized If, however, the reader forgets plied the old woman, "o«t I don't struction of Ukraine's basic, "fluvi­ by Malczewski in Maryal). Khmel- the ideal he had hoped to f|nd real­ think it's right to bu.den the horse ized in a work on Ukraine from al" unity. coul(i the Cambridge University Press, THE UKRAINE, in a word, is "¾Sffi " and accepts the book for What it history as written by a "geographi< ~mel- is. he will find it a gold mine of t+»t|g"' hyt¿a~y Io^0«KomaP6waka, and in "simple Cossack" Ivan jPfrkrirtryet- ·'materjajs'' Jttm-V*h*u«K ~M'*ЯШ*Р. tended to marry her on the death sky. probably also Christo^heRvo-— чrr+cr' Tor~ ftlmselr -his own h|rtory of his wife. To avenge the double sinski, leader of the earliest up­ of Ukraine. It is enormously interesting to ] injury, he had to use violent means, rising of the folk, all wished to note, as one reads THE UKRAINE, ¡ since Polish control of the courts see the same old social and eco­ П. which of the many odd and re- ¦ denied him justice. nomic set-up in Ukraine as they markable "characters" produced by , We have brewed a strong be­ had always known, but with "new Mr. Allen sees the Ukraine as the fluvial plain Mr. Allen con­ that "whole area of geographical verage, but I do not know how faces," with themselves, that is, in siders to be "national Ukrainian we are going to drink it," the Cos­ the positions of power and in­ unity contained within the fluvial heroes".' The first is Eustace Dash- network between the Baltic and sack leader of the Haydamaky, fluence traditionally held by the kevich (1455- 1535), star <»st a Ivan Gonta, is said to have re­ Polish szlachta. the Black Sea" (p. 81), or as he of Kanev and Cherkassy, and defines it in another place, "the marked, when he beheld the bloody There existed in Ukraine, at the organizer of the so-called Cossacks, consequences of his violent upris­ fluvial network which constitutes the "kresovians," that is, whether same time, side by side with this the geographical unity of the Great ing in 1768. And so it was with "elitarian" conception of society, Ukrainians or Poles, Catholics or Khmelnytsky. He unleashed a re­ Euroasian Plain" (p. 104). It is the Orthodox, s/laehta, townsmen or a rugged instinct toward rule by portion, ¿hat is. of the great in- volution of continental magnitude the people who tilled the soil and peasants, who were unwilling to when he thought he was leading a terocean¡c plain of Eurasia drained endure restraint. "Crafty, strong, cut down the trees of the forest. by the rivers Dniester, South Bug, simple revolt, and because the The Sich was the focus of the ideal and lucky in everything," he was cause he unwittingly projected in­ Dnieper and Donets, sloping to­ the very curse and scourge of the and the place to which people fled ward the Mediterranean and shaped to the arena of conflict was an when they were desperate of real­ Tatars, whom he resembled in looks evolutionary one, he achieved like an ellipse, with the following and could imitate in speech, so that izing it in the world. In season places ranged in order along its through it greatness and the full and out, the Sitch generated he often was taken for a Tatar. Of stature of a national hero. circumference: Kholm, Zamostia him it was said that he "held in an thunderbolts of proletarian ideal­ and Peremyshyl; Uzhorod. Muka- iron grasp the undisciplined elem­ Two others worthy of national ism and dischaged them through chiv and Chemivtsi; Odessa. Pere- ents of the frontier,'* and he was adoration, in the author's esteem, the land. The Sich made Khmel­ kop and Azov; Putivl, Chernihiv their hero. are Peter Doroshenko, the Hetman nytsky's revolution a real one, and Pinsk. whereby land was torn from the The second Ukrainian hero was who favored cooperation with Tur­ key, as Vyhovsky, Bohdan Khmel­ hand of privilege and given to the The internal "vital nerve" of Bayda, as his followers called him nytsky's Secretary and successor, people to own and till for their Ukraine, according to Mr. Allen, and as he is remembered in Ukra­ favored working in harmony with own profit. is the obvious meridian of the re­ inian ballads, whose name was Poland and Skoropadsky with Mus­ gion, the River Dnieper. This Dmitro Wishnevetsky (died 1563). This is the unique contribution covy; and tough old Ataman Sir- "meridial link" has exerted a con­ Like Dashkewich, Bayda also was of Ukraine to East European his­ ko, one of the last and greatest stant and unbroken influence on starosta of Cherkassy on the tory, a hundred~ and more years and most colorful Cossacks of the the region, just as has also some Dnieper, and he too was a leader before the same ideals were strong Sich. external "vital centre," Constan­ of the Cossacks. It was he who enough in western Europe to break tinople, at first, then Krakow and in 1557 got permission from the V. through into action. Moscow in turn, each* "magnetiz­ Polish King Sigismund August to ing" and "tending to consolidate bu¡ld a fortress for the protection In analyzing the "national he­ VI. the life" of this fluvial plain (p. of those of his turbulent friends roes" as nominated by Mr. Allen, There are many controversial 27). who were in the habit of fishing we find one attitude shared by statements in THE UKRAINE,— in the lower Dnieper, below the them all and this, we decide, is the Concerning the destiny of the "The Ukraine was beginning to cataracts. He built the fortress touchstone by which the author come into existence" after 1590, people of Ukraine, Mr. Allen sees on the Island of Khortitsa in the has singled them out. All were by it as simpler than could have been for example, and several inconsist­ Dnieper, and this became almost at by nature or conversion of the encies, like the disagreement be­ predicted before the present war. once the refuge for all the bold "proletarian" persuation. It "must be a Russian destiny," be tween note and text in the matter and adventurous kresovians. No One conflict persists in every of Pidkova's and Pavluk's place of believes, Russian "in the sense that one could tempt him with bribes period of Ukraine's history: the the fluvial network of the Great execution. There is also the very of money or power, not even the conflict between "proletarianism" confusing reference to Sigismund Eurasian plain is one geographical Sultan, who finally cried out in and "elitarianism." The people of and economic whole out of which Augustus, when Sigismund Ш anger, "Take Bayda and hang him Ukraine had many leaders but not Vasa is clearly meant, and the it Is impracticable and would be on a hook by the rib!" In the all of them, though they all claimed unreal to attempt to carve separate questionable assertion that the end, this founder of the fabulous to be fighting "for the people," had , French supported the Confedera­ and politically independent na­ Zaporogian Sich was tortured to the same picture in mind of what tional units." (p. 387) tion of Bar—to which one ia moved death, as the Sultan had ordered, they hoped society to be like if to reply, "How much?". In gen­ in Istanbul. they achieved what they were eral, however, THE UKRAINE is a • THE UKRAINE. A HISTORY, by The greatest of Ukraine's na­ fighting for. Ivan Mazeppa, for reliable "Concise Encyclopedia" of W. E. D. Allen, Cambridge University tional heroes, in Mr. Allen's opin­ example, and Ivan Vyhovsky, even a great and tremendously im·por­ Press. 1940; Macmillan. New York, ion, is Peter Sahaydachny, Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky himself and tant segment of the European con­ 1941. 404 Pa«res, $4.50. of the Cossacks of the Sich and of certainly his son Yuri, and the tinent. the times when they were free and In the French National Library "Ukraine" and "Ukrainian independent. The Polish and Rus­ there is a map dated 1580 on which sian scholars went hand in hand the Ukrainian lands are indicated with their respective governments by the name "I'krainia." On the and began to eliminate the his­ map of H. L. De Beuplan of 1650, ПНИЕ oldest monuments of his¯ But the I kra¡nians no one would torical meaning of the name "Uk­ * torical life among the Ukrain­ save, then; raina" by twisting it around and the map of Ukraina has the name of ian people indicate that the name No one sent a prayer for them to defining the word Ukraina. as '*¾Vpus Generalis Ukrainae." The '•ті»rainy fa r>f Rrfc¾ent origin and the God, meaning "the border land"; that same geographer in 1650 published was always applied to the territory Only Holy God knew of what he is, the Russians, describe it as the a book entitled "Description d'Uk- on which the Ukrainians have al­ was thinking, Russian land bordering Russia and rainie" which was translated then ways lived. That name Was com­ When dissent he placed unto Uk­ the Poles as Polish lands bordering into all European languages and mon to all. Ancestors of present- rainian land. Poland. published in several editions. In day Ukrainians used it to indicate The people called Ukraina that Under the tsaristic regime this thus book Beauplan gives definite the land in which they lived. This definite territory inhabited by a misunderstanding was smuggled boundaries of Ukraine and inden- is best illustrated by the very old people of common customs and into the school texts and different tifies it as independent of Poland folk songs which have not perished traditions about which, in times of literary works and encyclopedias so and Moscovy. (Muscovy is the to this day. ^ peace and under its own govern­ as to "prove" that there is no sam< as Russia of today. The geo­ For; instance: ment, they used to sing: such thing as Ukrainian people or graphers began to use the name Rus­ Ukraine is in sorrow, There is no place better, Ukraine, but only one Russia and sia in the second half of the eight­ For the life that's missing; There is no place brighter, one undivided Russian people. It eenth century). In the same French Hey, Tartar hordes have crossed Than our Ukraina. was not till the downfall of the library may be found maps of Ital­ imperialistic Russia, when the Uk­ and trampled ian geographers Sancone and Cor- Youth and little children. In the oldest times the literary rainian people began, to rebuild name of the land was different. In their own government, and the netti «>f the year 1641 and 1657 on Or: very old commercial documents the world in general began to take an which the territory of Ukraine is land was called Rue. That was the interest in Ukraine and its prob­ indicated by: "Ukraina a Paese de A young Ukrainian dear lassie. literal and diplomatic name and The Tartar hordes have carried lems, that it was possible to draw Cosac by the I'krainian people but by the Sickness called quite often, army eliminate the name Ukraina, as is the land which today is populated had its quarrels. reminded the Ukrainian people of by the Ukrainian people. European scholars as well.

he pointed somewhere ahead of him, and said: "Thank you," I smiled, feeling perfectly at "The border." ease. MOMENTS Far, far away I saw a dark thick forest. A A wisp of straw caught in her dark hair and By VOLODIMIR VINNrTCHENKO chill swept over, me, and my heart sank. hung trembling above her; her lower lip pouted So this was the border! And the sight of the slightly, like that of a pretty spoiled child. The (1) sunny field, at the end of which the mysterious shack was dark, and smelled of sheep-skins da/да j&rjufc.— -c— A ·N'D thus the prison Scheherazade started his forest began, filled me with an u n com fort t b|e уггіптіп¿__пдіі nnr¾iinw«f.— · "Are you goin? to Cross the boundary, com­ Y' story: __\^^^ШШЙЩЩтШ і * "Will you take me there immediately, Se­ rade?" asked the gir'. _. .'T.iiilт\тШШЛІ£Щ£^Т№рпг\%. Do you still men?" I asked. "You guessed correctly. And you?" remember what Spring is? Do you remember Semen turned his yellow-brown sharp nose "I, too." the deep, blue, far-away sky ? You lounge about and short mustache tp me. and said with an We both laughed. A swallow flew in and ¡ИШ the grass, resting your head upon your arms, air of amazement: flew out, chirping. A stray ray of sunlight lay looking into thfs wonderful sky. the sky of "Indeed. I do not think I have lived long across one of the corners like a streak of gold; Spring... About you the field caresses and loves, enough in this world. There are soldiers in those outside of the shack Semen swore at some one, whispers and sighs ... To whom ?—To the sky. woods. Go right into their hands, if you wish, perhaps the horse. Through the door we saw the wind, the sun... E¡verything breathes the but do let me live in this world a bit longer." swallows flying about like black arrows. The budding of new life, happiness of growth and A matter, which could force so many words dark shack breathed forth sadness and melan­ change—joy of Spring ... out of Semen, must indeed be a serious one. choly. Far off the vexed buzzing of a bee could I was riding towards the border with a "Then shall I go right to the forest?" be heard. smuggler Semen Poustonne. I had to cross the "Yes, to the forest right into the soldiers' Suddenly a man came in to the yard, called border that very day; I could not wait till night­ hands!" Semen aside and beµan to speak to him in a fall. But when I told this to Semen, he looked We were driving through a valley. Willows low voice, pointing frequently to the shack at me gloomily with a forced smile, then turned bent over us; and somehow I felt sorry for and the woods. Semen listened silently. away and shouted to his horses: "Get up, you!" these pleasant, good-hearted, harmless trees. The girl looked down at her clothes and pealed with laughter. Ah, if you knew what I must explain to you that this Semen was The field and the forest disappeared. The wagon stopped. Semen descended, silently walked over a wonderful laugh it was! And we know that a very serious .man, who never wasted words. I laµghter is the mirror of the soul! and who looked down upon the other men of і to me, and looking to one side, as was his man­ ner when speaking, asked: "Just look at me," she laughed, jumping to his village. He would walk solemnly and slowly. | her feet *and picking off the wisps of straw, with an expression on his face which never « "Do you really want to go immediately?" which clung to her dress like golden ornaments. changed. When caught by the border guards, "Yes, right away." "Do you know that I have been in this shack his face would become gloomier, his eyes still 'They might kill you." for the last three days?" she smiled to me. smaller, and sharper, his lips deadly white. "No. they will not!" "Really! For some reason we could not start ouL "Really, Semen, I must be on the other side "Well, then lie down," said Semen, angrily, But is it not nice here? Just like an Indian today, no matter what you say," I insisted. pointing to the wagon. wigwam. I like it very much. Semen brought - He did not even glance at me. A swarm of I asked no questions, but obediently lay me food here. It is a bit gloomy, but now we small, shining, black flies sat on his broad back. down, smiling to the willows. Semen covered me shall fight loneliness together. But listen, why Every movement of his body caused them to with a cloth, which smelled of cucumbers, and do you stand idle? Take the straw off me! hover over him like seagulls about a rock. But we proceeded. We must have ridden through a What a cavalier you aio!" soon they would settle down again and remain wild place, for the wagon rocked like a cradle, To tell the truth, 1 thought her very charm­ motionless, as though watching me carefully. and the horse often stopped to nibble the weeds. ing with the straw all over her. In fact. I felt "You may be lulled," Semen said suddenly, I imagined that this was my corpse on the like adding some more to it. I laughingly ex­ after w*»·kpd traversed about ten miles in si­ way back from the boundary. We rode for pressed my thoughts to her. She laughed in lence. ~—·Ч. ¿ hours. I saw only straw and the gray coverlet. response, picked up a handfull of straw, and "Did it ever happen?" I asked. At last the wagon stopped. The coverlet was handed it to me: "Here. 1 dare you!" Semen slowly tore off a slip of cigarette pa­ lifted, and instead of it I saw the blue sky above I silently took the straw, and before she per, and Tumbled in his pockets for tobacco. me, and Semen with his sharp nose and gray- knew it, her head, shoulders, and chest were "Why Should it not happen ? Does one need black mustache. covered with straw. much sense to kill a person?" "Get up!" he said. "Now you are beautiful," I said. "BuVtr^does not happen in every case, does I sat up. The wagon was near a shack, and At that moment the massive figure of Semen it?" ¡ C¾ s opposite it stood a little house. appeared in the doorway. Paying no attention Semen licked the paper, lit a match, and * "Go into the shack," said Semen, looking to the straw-covered girl, he looked Into one puffed -at his cigarette a few times: about him carefully. "I will unharness the horse of the dark corners, and said in his stern voice: "No. It does not· always happen." and take you across." "You have to leave this place immediately. "WeW¼hen I am not going to be killed," I I also looked about, jumped off the wagon, The police are searching the houses of my said d«¾|el itly. and ran over to the shack. I opened the door friends, and they will be here soon." I remember how I laughed at this thought and stopped in astonishment. Right opposite the The girl and I looked at each other with І—чіеаФІ Those files, .Semen's back, the horse, door, on a heap of straw, sat a young girl. A startled eyes. Semen's hat and ...I—-dead! I, lying somewhere real city girl,—-pretty little shoes, a straw hat "Whom are they searching for?" asked the in -a wirt ·desolate place, with the sky above lying on her knees, eyes wide open with sur­ girl quietly. me. Thggwis a small black wound in my temple prise. And euch.eyes... Large, pure, radiant, "For some girl. Perhaps, some one who is a and aoQufQ are clustered little black flies. They like those of a. frightened deer. I had never spy," added Semen in a low voice. "You must gaze curiously into the wound, where death took had any grudge against pretty girls, but in a flee from here!" abode.-My face is hard and greenish pale·... barn, on straw/ in a smuggler's den... I was "Where to?" I asked. · black ravens sit on the rocks in silent expecta­ amazed. "To the other side. Let the young lady go tion ... "May I come in?" I asked foolishly. with you. By the time the police will have "If you are tired of having your head on The girl's eyes opened still wider, then reached this place, you two will be in the your shoulders, go ahead!" came from Semen flew all over me, and filled with gay laghter. woods/' unexpectedly. "Please do!" she answered pleasantly, mak­ Semen's lips were thin and white, his eyes Somr *we**noticed a village in the distance. ¦ ing room for me next to her on the straw. Her sharp and stern. Semen stood up on his seat and looked search- eyes full of merriment and curiosity continued "Well?" I turned to the girl. ingly forward\ Then turning into a side road, to scrutinize me. (To be continued) FUNNY SJDE IP General Practitioner The Melropolitan Division U.N.A. All-Star ( l.\vsv CHASSIS Basketball Team Did you ever see а ш luiiiber- or a Specialist ing down the Avenue as if some~ Out of the 39 young men that York's Branch 361. Two agile had -i\on a morris chair a hot played under the banner of the Mickey's Hamalak of the New Medical standards and education ' Well, if you have, you've an Ukrainian National Ass'n on the York Branch 423 an*d Matsik of in the U*nited States at the present of the "new" car we recently Metropolitan Division courts, I have Philadelphia at guards complete ¡il·e doctor staiting to practice pivot man, Frank Panczyssyn, that, for ever since we've got the ville and Nestor Stadnyk of і ledicine spends about 10 to 12 whom we nominate as captain, and model, it's been» back-firing with Pete Romanik, the left forward, Gotham's 361 take care of the an English accent! To be technical - of rigorous study in prepara­ guard posts while lanky Walter tion tor his work. who was the leading scorer of the ut it. we couldn't call the jalop- league. Pete's running mate is a "Specs" Bukata of Philly is^ the'-.* py a model.. .it's a horrible exam pie! At the successful completion of U.N.A. star of three years' stand­ center. Here's how these aces line Many people have asked us what study at a medical school, the stu­ ing — Mike Czarnecky of New up: kind of sedan it was, so we're been dent is awarded the degree of Doc­ telling everybody it's a Gypsy Rose tor of Medicine. At this point all FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM Lee car ... every time it takes oft*, physician¢ have covered the various Name of Player Team Position Name of Player Team it strips its gears! Why, the car medical subjects and specialities Pete Romanik Millville Forward Jerry Juzwiak Philadelphia is s<¾ slow that everytime we put (or divisions) of medicine. Follow­ Mike Czarnecky N.Y. Br. 361 Forward Teddy Dusanenko NY. Br. 361 our hand out somebody puts ing graduation practically all doc¯ F. Panczyszyn Millville Center Walter Bukata Philadelphia a nickle in it... so we keep put­ Mickey Hamalak N.Y. Br. 423 Guard Nestor Stadnyk N.Y. 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